Temporary binder.



N0. 632,49I. Patented Sept. 5, I899. C. 0. HISCOCK.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

(Application filed Sept. 1, 1898.)

(No Model.)

1.7V VE/V 70% 40%, &. Mame @M/cw WITNESSES 6Z4 )7" 24 liar/163 s.

IhvrTnn STATES PATENT @nrica. I

CHARLES O. HISCOCK, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,491, dated September 5, 1899.

Application filed September 1, 1898. Serial No. 689,985. (No model.)

To cvZZ whont it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES O. HIscocK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Temporary Binders; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to bookbinding, and has for its object an improved form of temporary binder adapted to be used in all cases where it is desired to use loose sheets of paper which may be taken out and replaced whenever desired. It is especially useful for small books of the class known as pockettucks, in which are kept entries of accounts, memoranda of expenses, and all memoranda which the user desires to make on sheets of paper which are temporarily protected and finally removed to other places.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the improvement applied to a pocket-tuck. Fig. 2 is a cross-section at the line as a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows in perspective the holding-clip. Fig. 4: shows the blank from which the holdingclip is bent. Fig. 5 shows the catch. Fig. 6 shows another form of catch. Fig; 7 is a longitudinal section at the line pg of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section showing a modified form of holding-pin.

A indicates the cover of the tuck, which is so scored and bent that one of the sides of the tuck, which may be called the rear or back, is fiat and continuous from edge to edge of the book. The back edgeb of the book bends up from the back side and bends forward over the front side of the book, with the flap c,that extends toward the front edge of the book, far enough to fully cover the holding pins cl cl. These holding-pins are several in number, at least two, and are secured to the back side of the book,near the back edge,with

-a projection extending on the outside of the book. As shown in Fig. '7, the projection is made in the form of a half of a wire of which the ends are bent up to form the pins (1 d, the portion of the wire 6 connecting the pins 61 01 being preferably flattened on its inner side andleft rounding on its outer side. The pins extend upward aproper distance, so that the flap 0 when turned forward over them and resting on the top of them lies parallel with the back side CL of the book.

At the forward edge of the book the cover is folded upward at f and returned, with a flap g, that meets the flap 0, so that a cross-section of the tuck with the covers and flaps closed in is rectangular in shape.

The front flap g has riveted to its edge near the middle of it a catch B. This catch is a sheet of metal fiat except that it has a raised portion 1).

The flap c is held in place over the pins d by means of the clip 0. This clip is a sheet of metal bent into U shape and is provided near each edge with a groove 0 0 That one of the grooves which is in that portion of the clip which lies at the back of the book engages over the wire e. The other groove which lies in the face at the front of the book engages over the raised portion 1) of the catch B when the book is closed and serves to hold the catch in place.

The U -shaped clip 0 is easily removed from position by slipping it endwise until it has been slipped off from engagement with the wire c. It may then be drawn back entirely off from the cover, the flap 0 turned back from above the pins, and the leaves either placed on the pins or taken off from the pins.

I prefer to make the first of the leaves it at the front of the book of thick board, hinging it at h. The thick board furnishes a table when it is desired to write on the back of any of the memoranda-leaves in the book.

A modified form of the catch is shown in Fig. 6 at B, the modification consisting in making two spurs or bosses b in place of the long spur b. A modification of the pins and manner of securing them is shown in Fig. 8, where in place of the two pins united bya connecting-bar e there are shown two pins, each of which is provided with a projecting head cl d, that engage in the groove 0 What I claim is- 1. In a temporary binder, in combination with a cover having a front flap provided with a catch having a raised portion, a pin passing through the leaves of the book to be held in the binder and provided with a part projecting beyond the outside of the cover at the back side, a bindingclip made of a U -shaped piece of meta], provided near each ends of the pins, a clip with grooves one of which is adapted to engage over the project- I 5 ing ends of the pins, and the other of which is adapted to engage over and hold the catch on the front flap of the cover, substantially as described. 7

In testimony whereof I sign this specifica- 20 tion in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES O. HISCOCK.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. BURTON, 4 VIRGINIA M. CLOUGH. 

